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- Dongles are annoying, 3.5mm is delightfully simple and universally supported across the audio industry. It's not hard to implement and can carry a fairly high
by zaarn 8y ago
- Dongles are annoying, 3.5mm is delightfully simple and universally supported across the audio industry. It's not hard to implement and can carry a fairly high quality signal if your DAC is good enough. If you want digital, a normal 3.5mm jack plus cable should be able to carry enough bandwidth and still remain backwards compatible. I would see that as an improvement over simply-analog-3.5.
- The normal end user wouldn't care about the difference in NFC but banks would be thankful for not having to pay Apple for the privilege of having their customer use an iPhone.
- True but people care about not having to care and a universal charging port is good for that. Then people can just plug chargers into things and it works. No thinking required. And less waste too because vendors might not have to package chargers with every device and people won't have to buy new chargers every new iPhone release.
- rusk 8y agoFunny that you got downvoted and flagged for talking sense, and yet not a single reply.
- MBCook 8y ago> banks would be thankful for not having to pay Apple for the privilege of having their customer use an iPhone. Could you expand on this? I’m not aware of banks having to pay Apple.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoApple takes a cut of every ApplePay transaction.
- MBCook 8y agoEven physical point of sale transactions? I could see Apple Pay on the Web.
- artimaeis 8y agoSource? The source I found [0] indicates otherwise: > Are there additional fees to accept Apple Pay? > Apple does not charge users, merchants or developers to use Apple Pay for payments. [0] - https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/get-started/ https://developer.apple.com/apple-pay/get-started/ Edit: Looks like they charge banks and payment networks for the transaction. I suppose it's possible that the networks pass that fee back to the retailer at some point. Can't find great sources for any of that though.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoParent: > Could you expand on this? I’m not aware of banks having to pay Apple Me: > Apple takes a cut of every ApplePay transaction. Your comment: > Looks like they charge banks and payment networks for the transaction. Details: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-pay/ https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-pay/
- detaro 8y agoApple demands transaction fees from the card-issuing banks. From media reports, that's one of the reasons Apple Pay took so long to get to e.g. Germany.